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On Sunday, five years to the day after his memorable play became a symbol of a devastated community's will to carry on, Gleason, 34, went public with his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
The Theory of Everything , suffers from a motor neuron disease related to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also called Lou Gehrig's disease. Diagnosed when he was 21, Hawking is completely paralyzed and unable to speak without the aid of a computerized speech synthesizer.he Theory of Everything , suffers from a motor neuron disease related to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also called Lou Gehrig's disease. Diagnosed when he was 21, Hawking is completely paralyzed and unable to speak without the aid of a computerized speech synthesizer.